In the second and final volume of his biography of Hitler, Volker Ullrich argues that the very qualities that accounted for the dictator’s astonishing rise were also what brought about his ultimate ruin. It would take another world war, a genocide and millions of dead before the dictatorship finally collapsed in 1945, a full 12 years after Hitler was invited into power. The Weimar Republic had become the Third Reich. An utter impossibility had become the indomitable reality. 30, 1933.īut anyone who thought the Nazis would be content with their share - that Hitler would rise to the occasion or be hemmed in by it, becoming a dignified statesman who sought compromise - was summarily purged from the system that conservatives assumed they controlled. For Germany’s unpopular conservative elites, Hitler’s energy and theatrics made him an enticing partner when they appointed him chancellor on Jan. The impulsiveness and grandiosity, the bullying and vulgarity, were obvious from the beginning if anything, they accounted for Adolf Hitler’s anti-establishment appeal.
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